Ed. H 2 SO 4 has a wide range of uses. Most of it (≈60%) is consumed in extracting phosphoric acid from apatites (phosphate rocks) for fertilizer use. Other industrial applications are in petroleum ...

Life as we know it needs water, but life as we don't know it may run on concentrated sulfuric acid. The chemistry of life as we know it wouldn't work in a place like the huge Saturn moon Titan ...